Example sentences of "would [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's just one point I 'd make on erm , the first one , regarding the , th , Wiltshire and Thamesdown Racial Equality Council . |
| 2 | She wondered if he 'd stay on in the motel business , or move out . |
| 3 | I had hoped you 'd stay on . |
| 4 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 5 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 6 | I 'd find a field or a park bench , and early next morning I 'd head on down to the sea . |
| 7 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 8 | He 'd carry on as if nothing was the matter , though some days his face was grey with pain . |
| 9 | And you just walked through the street and he 'd carry on by . |
| 10 | Perhaps you 'd carry on with the Leicester ladies , and Gladys Brown . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd carry on eating , one elbow on the table , through all the racket . |
| 12 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 13 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 14 | Oh well yes , I 'd carry on Oh mind you , we stocked everything then . |
| 15 | they 'd carry on getting the reduced rate prior to the period of disallowance . |
| 16 | Co fall out the bucket you see on the when they over the top tumbler that 'd splash on into the chute , there used to be a chute , take it right into the harbour . |
| 17 | But with her , he 'd keep on driving . |
| 18 | He told me that if the police started questioning me they 'd keep on and on until I said something I should n't . |
| 19 | She 'd run on ahead to join James , her bare legs flashing in the sunshine . |
| 20 | Often on the beach , when he 'd run on ahead looking for flat pebbles to skim over the sea , he 'd glanced back to find them walking with their arms around one another . |
| 21 | And then you 'd stop on afterwards to er nurse them back to health again . |
| 22 | I 'd take on all comers , especially when I was broke . |
| 23 | Strange , she 'd think , the way life could sometimes go — how you 'd take on one humiliation simply in order to avoid another , and reckon yourself ahead . |
| 24 | But he 'd take on someone like Glenda Grower , who 's a much tougher customer . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 'd be the better pleased if she 'd take on and be the mistress ! ’ |
| 26 | Well , if you were to sort of pop off , I 'd go on being a countess , would n't I ? |
| 27 | We 'd go on to gigs or to parties or out to eat . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's not me , ’ she said ‘ The woman in those papers , ’ It was confusing , sometimes , when she 'd go on about her papers , Sometimes she meant the ones that proved she was a citizen , sometimes the others , the ones that proved she was n't So she believed . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish you 'd go on . |
| 30 | The more meekly they reacted , the more we 'd go on . |